Red · Dunnigan Hills · United States
Matchbook Petit Verdot
Scored from 280 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · United States (1,156 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Nice single varietal Petite Verdot! Deep Ruby in the glass with some blue hues. Intense aromas of Blackberry, Blueberry, Chocolate, Violet and Baking Spice. Same flavors on the Palate with some Vanilla as well. Dry and Full-Bodied. Medium Alcohol at 13.9% ABV, which is nicely integrated. Tannins are Medium+. Acidity is Medium+. Good Balance. Medium Finish. Paired nicely with assorted Goat Cheeses, Artisanal Italian Sausages and Herb Rotisserie Chicken. I was delightfully surprised by this wine.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Dunnigan Hills in the United States, Matchbook Petit Verdot is a red. At $17.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
280 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 289 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,156 American reds.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Matchbook Petit Verdot lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against Red · United States (1,156 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 280.
